April Fools by Jess Lourey, 301 pages

After eleven straight months of discovering a dead body a month, librarian Mira James thinks she’s finally broken her bad luck streak. That is until she finds a disturbing note in a book, a clue that could lead to breaking open one of Minnesota’s biggest crime syndicates. She follows the trail and is horrified to discover that it leads to her father, who died 13 years earlier. To make matters worse, Mira catches wind that her sexy Adonis boyfriend, Johnny, is planning a surprise for her. Problem is, she doesn’t know if it’s a marriage proposal or an intervention.

As Mrs. Berns and Mira take on their final case together, Mira discovers it’s more personal than she could have imagined, and that she holds the fates of her dearest friends in her hands.

October Fest by Jess Lourey, 229 pages

Mira has managed to stumble across a dead body every month since she moved to Battle Creek at the beginning of summer, but she's hoping that trend will stop now that fall is here. She is invited to a romantic dinner by the handsome and blond Johnny that makes Mira go weak in the knees and mind, but little does she expect the evening to end with her being present at yet another dead body turning up. Mira quickly finds herself immersed in trying to find the killer, work her library and reporting jobs, and help protect Mrs. Berns from being committed by her son. All in all, just another normal month for Mira.